Your Turn: July 3

U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke speaks during the Texas Democratic Convention in Fort Worth recently. A reader identifies the U.S. Senate candidate as one of the good guys on immigration.

U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke speaks during the Texas Democratic Convention in Fort Worth recently. A reader identifies the U.S. Senate candidate as one of the good guys on immigration.

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U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke speaks during the Texas Democratic Convention in Fort Worth recently. A reader identifies the U.S. Senate candidate as one of the good guys on immigration.

U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke speaks during the Texas Democratic Convention in Fort Worth recently. A reader identifies the U.S. Senate candidate as one of the good guys on immigration.

Photo: Richard W. Rodriguez /Associated Press

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Blame the GOP

Re: “You can support Dems or immigrants, not both,” Other Views, Ruben Navarrette, June 7:

Navarrette quoted President Bill Clinton: “We are a nation of immigrants, but a nation of laws.” This Justice Department, under Attorney General Jeff Sessions, narrowly interpreted the law to separate children from their parents. The mainstream media have shown all Democrats are in favor of an immigration plan that Donald Trump and Republicans killed last August.

I disagree with Navarrette’s statement “you can’t support both.” Just look at the immigration rallies and media interviews of U.S. Reps. Joaquin Castro, Lloyd Doggett and Beto O’Rourke, showing them doing all they can to support immigrants.

This column should be renamed “Can’t support both Republicans and immigrants.”

Adam Castillo

King Trump

Let’s speak plainly. Those who blindly support President Donald Trump and believe that he can do no wrong are, in fact, admirers of authoritarian strongman rule and the exercise of arbitrary power.

Trump’s recent assertion that as president he has power to squash any criminal investigation of his friends and supporters, while initiating investigations of his political opponents, is clear evidence of his desire to subvert the impartial rule of law.

If a president has the power to pardon himself, he has a virtual license to do whatever he pleases whenever he pleases — then grant himself absolution afterward. This amounts to unbridled, unchecked power — clear potential for the commission of arbitrary acts worthy of a European dictator.

Trump supporters delude themselves if they believe that he is a faithful guardian of the U.S. Constitution and the principle of equal protection of the law. After all, by his logic, as president, Trump has absolute power to define what justice is and do anything he pleases.

As our second president, John Adams, stated so well even before the founding of our great country: “The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.”

G.L. Lamborn

Put bonus to work

On a Monday, I awake to no electricity — and CPS Energy CEO Paula Gold-Williams receives a $261,000 bonus? How about applying some of her bonus to provide CPS technology that increases electricity service levels?